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Output-only modal parameter identification of civil engineering structures

  • Ren, Wei-Xin;Zong, Zhou-Hong
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.17 no.3_4
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    • pp.429-444
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    • 2004
  • The ambient vibration measurement is a kind of output data-only dynamic testing where the traffics and winds are used as agents responsible for natural or environmental excitation. Therefore an experimental modal analysis procedure for ambient vibration testing will need to base itself on output-only data. The modal analysis involving output-only measurements presents a challenge that requires the use of special modal identification technique, which can deal with very small magnitude of ambient vibration contaminated by noise. Two complementary modal analysis methods are implemented. They are rather simple peak picking (PP) method in frequency domain and more advanced stochastic subspace identification (SSI) method in time domain. This paper presents the application of ambient vibration testing and experimental modal analysis on large civil engineering structures. A 15 storey reinforced concrete shear core building and a concrete filled steel tubular arch bridge have been chosen as two case studies. The results have shown that both techniques can identify the frequencies effectively. The stochastic subspace identification technique can detect frequencies that may possibly be missed by the peak picking method and gives a more reasonable mode shapes in most cases.

Study of High Efficiency LLC Resonant Converter for a Battery Charger of Emergency Electric Power Generator Control System (비상용 발전기 제어시스템의 배터리 충전기를 위한 고효율 LLC 공진형 컨버터의 연구)

  • Lee, Joonmin;Park, Min-Gi;Lee, Young Keun;La, Jae-Du
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.27 no.10
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2013
  • Generally, the conventional battery charging system using an analog method has the large, heavy hardware and low efficiency. Also, it has the disadvantage that it is necessary to replace the control circuit on the basis of the characteristic curve of the specific battery cell. The proposed programmable digital LLC resonant charging system use high efficiency control system(CC-CV), and has characteristic a small hardware and advantage that a digital programming of the voltage, current, and battery capacity characteristics can be flexible. The system proposed the use of Half-bridge LLC resonant converter is possible to improve efficiency and reduce switching losses by using ZVS topology. Further, a constant voltage - constant current(CC-CV) control algorithm apply to the charger which using a buck converter. The performance of the proposed system is demonstrated through experiments.

Successful Damage Control Resuscitation with Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in a Pediatric Patient

  • Heo, Yoonjung;Chang, Sung Wook;Kim, Dong Hun
    • Journal of Trauma and Injury
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.170-174
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    • 2020
  • Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) is considered an emerging adjunct therapy for profound hemorrhagic shock, as it can maintain temporary stability until definitive repair of the injury. However, there is limited information about the use of this procedure in children. Herein, we report a case of REBOA in a pediatric patient with blunt trauma, wherein the preoperative deployment of REBOA played a pivotal role in damage control resuscitation. A 7-year-old male patient experienced cardiac arrest after a motor vehicle accident. After 30 minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, spontaneous circulation was achieved. The patient was diagnosed with massive hemoperitoneum. REBOA was then performed under ongoing resuscitative measures. An intra-aortic balloon catheter was deployed above the supraceliac aorta, which helped achieved permissive hypotension while the patient was undergoing surgery. After successful bleeding control with small bowel resection for mesenteric avulsion, thorough radiologic evaluations revealed hypoxic brain injury. The patient died from deterioration of disseminated intravascular coagulation. Although the patient did not survive, a postoperative computed tomography scan revealed neither remaining intraperitoneal injury nor peripheral ischemia correlated with the insertion of a 7-Fr sheath. Hence, REBOA can be a successful bridge therapy, and this result may facilitate the further usage of REBOA to save pediatric patients with non-compressible torso hemorrhage.

Effects of Design Parameters of Steel-Embedded Precast Composite Piers (강재매입형 조립식 합성교각의 설계 변수 영향)

  • Shim, Chang-Su;Lim, Hyun-Sik;Chung, Young-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.53-54
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    • 2009
  • Steel-embedded composite piers provide flexible design alternatives to satisfy the required performance due to various design parameters of composite sections. For the fast construction of composite piers, bolt connection can be utilized for small size piers and post-tensioning to the pier segments for the large size piers. In this paper, experimental results on composite piers were investigated to evlauate the effects of design parameters on the behavior of composite piers. Appropriate sections and their integration methods were suggested according to the design conditions. For the modular construction of bridge piers, pier segments need to be divided considering their weight and careful considerations on details to adjust fabrication and construction error. Connection details for the pier cap were also proposed.

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Experimental discussion on the installation of filler wall for sound insulation measurements of shipboard windows (선박용 창의 차음성능 측정용 충진벽체 설치에 관한 실험적 고찰)

  • Kim, Sang-Ryul;Kang, Hyun-Ju;Kim, Hyun-Sil
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.276-279
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    • 2008
  • In order to measure sound transmission loss (STL) of a shipboard window of small size, a special partition is built into the test opening between two reverberation rooms and the specimen is placed in that partition. For high sound insulation, the filler wall often has multi-layered structure such as double-brick wall or buckhead structure with thick steel plate, absorptive material, and sandwich panels. This paper discusses the installation method of a multi-layered filler wall that consist of gypsum boards, lead plates, and glass wool. The experimental results of various wall structures are introduced. The comparison between the results show that the sound bridge effect plays a significant role in lowering the maximum STL of the filler wall. It is also found that the higher the sound insulation performance of the filler wall is, the more important the franking transmission through other side wall of the test facility is.

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A Design and Characteristic Analysis of ZVS-Half Bridge type High-Frequency Resonant DC-DC Converter Using Soft-Switching Technique (소프트 스위칭 기법을 이용한 ZVS-HB형 고주파 공진 DC-DC 컨버터의 설계 및 특성해석)

  • Oh, Kyeong-Seob;Nam, Seung-Sik;Kim, Kyeong-Sik;Kim, Dong-Hee;Ro, Chae-Gyun
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.179-187
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    • 2001
  • In recent years, the switching source devices have the advantage of small, light and high reliability with the high-frequency. But, high-frequency switching has disclosed disadvantage of result from stress and turn-on and turn-off peak losses at the switching instant. Accordingly, in this paper propose ZVS-HB type high-frequency resonant DC/DC converter using soft switching technique (Zero-Voltage-Switching, Zero-Current-Switching) with safety operating of circuit at diving on inductive zone, through the circuit design example using the capacitor $C_3,\;C_4$ with soft switching function and division characteristic of resonant Capacitor C, $C_1,\;C_2$, and, the characteristic analysis of circuit is generally described using normalized parameters. Also, this paper certified a rightfulness of characteristic analysis in comparison with a theoretical values and a experimental values obtain from experiment using MOSFET.

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Construction of The Mac Wave Detection System using Strain Gage (스트레인 게이지를 이용한 맥파 검출 시스템의 구성)

  • Yi, Chong-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics T
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    • v.36T no.4
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    • pp.88-93
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, a new Mac-wave detection system by strain gage is constructed for study on a Mac-wave which is major factor of diagnosis in oriental medicine. Inherent resistance of a strain gage is linearly changed with strain of the sensor, thus the Mac-wave of wrist can be detected by using of the strain gage. A precision bridge circuit and high sensitive amplifier is designed for detecting the change of resistance of the strain gage in this experiments. A very small change of Mac-wave is acquired in the circuit. And the digital signal of the detected Mac-wave are acquired on a PC by multichannel A/D converter and displayed graphically by programming. The characteristics of the Mac-wave of sampled 6 persons in the time and the frequency domain are analysed, therefore the usefulness of the system constructed in this experiments are proved.

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An analysis on the achievement characteristics among regional scales : Based on the 2010, 2011 National Assessment Educational Achievement results in elementary mathematics subject (국가수준 학업성취도 평가 결과에 나타난 지역 규모별 특성 분석 -2010년, 2011년 초등학교 수학과 결과를 중심으로)

  • Jo, Yun Dong;Cho, Seong Min;Choi, In Seon
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.52 no.3
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    • pp.303-317
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    • 2013
  • Recently in South Korea, various methods are followed in decreasing educational gap between region and social classes through school education. The National Assessment Educational Achievement(NAEA) intends to strengthen responsibility of school education and manage quality of curriculum. Besides, the NAEA intends to bridge achievement gap which is one of educational gaps by grasping the characteristics of academic ability to guarantee basic academic ability. There is not much research about the educational gap among regional scales. Therefore in this study, to examine the achievement characteristics among regional scales closely, we analyse the 2010, 2011 NAEA results in elementary mathematics subject and explore characteristics of items which have sharp differences between local population sizes. The results of the analysis has been showed that the educational gap between 'big-sized cities' and 'small and midium-sized cities' has been increased, but the overall educational gap among regional scales has been decreased.

A study on the correlation between V charpy absorbed energy and critical COD value in the welded parts of high tensil strength steel under various welding methods (고장력강 용접부에 있어서 한계 COD값과 V charpy충격치와의 상관성에 관한 연구)

  • 김영식;김충해
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.57-67
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    • 1988
  • Although handicapped by the inability to bridge the size gap between small laboratory sample and large engineering component, the V charpy test sample method does possess certain advantages, such as each of preparation, simplicity of test method, speed, low cost in test machinery, and low cost per test. On the other hand, the COD test method does posses advantages, which reduce the size gap between the laboratory sample and actual engineering component. Consequently, the correlation between V charpy absorbed energy and the critical COD value is required for estimating critical COD value from the simple V charpy test results. In this paper, the high tensile strength steel AH36 plate specimens having a single edge cracked notch were investigated to find out the correlation between V charpy absorbed energy and critical COD value in the welded parts under such various welding methods as shielded metal arc welding, the submerged arc welding and the electro gas welding by means of V charpy impact test and static 3-point bending test. Main results obtained are as follow ; 1. The relationships between V charpy absorbed energy Wc' and critical COD value ($\delta_c$)show; $\delta_c$=0.0065 Wc'+0.1906. 2. Ductile- brittle transition behaviours can be estimated by means of fracture appearance and general yielding behaviours. 3. The V charpy absorbed energy of SMAW is higher than that of SAW, EGW and similar relationships are obtained in the COD tests.

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Modified Single-Phase SRM Drive for Low Torque Ripple and Power Factor Improvement (저토크리플 및 역률개선을 위한 수정된 단상 SRM 구동시스템)

  • An, Young-Joo
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.8
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    • pp.975-982
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    • 2007
  • The single-phase switched reluctance motor(SRM) drive requires DC source which is generally supplied through a rectifier connected with a commercial source. The rectifier is consist of a diode full bridge and a filter circuit. Usually the filter circuit uses capacitor with large value capacitance to reduce ripple component of DC power. Although the peak torque ripple of SRM is small, the short charge and discharge current of the filter capacitor draws the low power factor and system efficiency. A modified single phase SRM drive system is presented in this paper, which includes drive circuit realizing reduction of torque ripple and improvement of power factor. In the proposed drive circuit, one switching part and diode which can separate the output of AC/DC rectifier from the filter capacitor is added. Also, a upper switch of drive circuit is exchanged a diode in order to reduce power switching device. Therefore the number of power switch device is not changed, two diodes are only added in the SRM drive. To verify the proposed system, some simulation and experimental results are presented.